66081 Dollands Moor to Wembley 6B20 (6B41) eau minerale

66081 was sold by DB Cargo to GBRf in 2017 and renumbered 66 number 784.

 

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DB Schenker Rail (UK) Ltd's class 66 (JT42CWR) number 66081 in maroon with zigzag gold band rebranded into DB livery at minimal cost by removing the large letter EWS from the side of the locomotive and applying DB stickers to the cabside and front works 6B20 from Dollands Moor to Wembley European Freight Operations Centre on 9 January 2015 hauling 27 Tonne (tare du wagon) G.E. Rail Services owned IZA (GE117CT Hfirrs 3) semi-perminantly coupled 4-wheeled CARGOWAGGON vans with shared running numbers built by Duewag. It was also photographed later on route (headcode 6B41) by Nigel Gould at Northampton. Having started out in France and passed through the channel tunnel each pair of vans is used to transport approximately 59,000 litters (59 Tonnes) of Danone bottled mineral water (eau minerale) in crates of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles such as Evian imported from Évian-les-Bains in the French Alps and Volvic from the Massif Central. Evian bottled at the SAEME plant Post is transported by train (for a map of the route click here) from Évian-les-Bains to the UK via Publier, (Bellegarde Longeray or Annemasse?), Culoz, Ambérieu-en-Bugey, Bourg-en-Bresse, Louhans, Gevrey-Chambertin, Dijon-Perrigny, Chalons-en-Champagne, Reims, Longueau and Calais-Frethun. For Volvic the route is thought to be from the SEV bottling plant in Riom to the UK via Gannat, Saincaize, Vierzon, Valenton (Paris), Longueau and Calais Frethun. From Wembley this train continues on route to Crick under headcode 6B41 and is ultimately unloaded at a distribution warehouse at Daventry International Rail Freight Terminal (DIRFT).

 

A similar set of cargowaggon vans was photographed by Nicolas Villenave on 9 May 2014 returning empty passing through Écaillon (department Nord) on their way from Calais Frethun to Culoz railway junction in the Ain department in the Rhône-Alpes region of France, by Mattias Catry at Boisleux-au-Mont on 9 September 2012 and by Laurent Knop at Béthisy-St.-Pierre, Picardie in the Oise department on 12 March 2014. 66081 (works number 968702-081) was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division, London, Ontario, Canada in 1998 and unloaded from the Heavy Lift Ship MV "Stellamare" at Newport Docks on 1 March 1999.

 

According to Realtime Trains the route and timings were;

Dollands Moor Sidings .........0646.........0649..........3L

Ashford International UML...0700.........0704 1/2...4L

Maidstone East [MDE] 1.........0733 1/2...0733.........RT

Otford Junction[XOT]............0818..........0818 1/4...RT

Swanley [SAY] 1.......................0830.........0831 1/4.....1L

St Mary Cray Junction...........0835.........0836 1/4....1L

Bickley Junction[XLY]............0836 1/2..0837.........RT

Bromley South [BMS].............0840.........0840 1/2..RT

Shortlands [SRT].....................0842.........0842.........RT

Shortlands Junction...............0843.........0843 1/2...RT

Bellingham [BGM]...................0846 1/2..0847.........RT

Nunhead [NHD] 1....................0855.........0858..........3L

Peckham Rye [PMR] 3...........0859.........0900 1/2...1L

Crofton Road Junction..........0901.........0902 1/2...1L

Denmark Hill [DMK] 1.............0902........0903..........1L

Voltaire Road Junction.........0906 1/2..0907.........RT

Latchmere Junction...............0911 1/2....0913 1/4.....1L

Imperial Wharf [IMW] 2..........0915 1/2...0915 3/4..RT

West Brompton [WBP] 4.......0918..........0918..........RT

Kensington Olympia .............0922........0922.........RT

Shepherds Bush [SPB] 2.......0923.........0926..........3L

North Pole Signal Vc813.......0924 1/2..0928..........3L

North Pole Junction...............0925........0928..........3L

Mitre Bridge Junction............0926 1/2..0930..........3L

Willesden West Londn Jn.....0928.........0931 1/2....3L

Wembley Eur Frt Ops Ctr.....0939.........0935.........4E

 

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